From Frechet Differentials to Firing Tables

Introduction.- First Appearances of Bliss' Method.- Four Sources of Bliss' Method: Existence and Smoothness of Solutions to Differential Equations.- Four Sources of Bliss' Method: The Mayer Problem.- Four Sources of Bliss' Method: Embedding and Implicit Function Theorems.- Four Sources of Bliss' Method: Functions of a Line.- Bliss' Two 1920 Papers.- Introduction of Bliss' Method into Military Settings.- Bliss' Results as Part of the Development of the Functional Calculus at the University of Chicago.- Conclusion.